Randall E. Stross
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The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups
19 editions
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2012
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The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
14 editions
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2007
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Planet Google: One Company's Audacious Plan To Organize Everything We Know
21 editions
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2008
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eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work
18 editions
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2000
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Steve Jobs & the NeXT Big Thing
3 editions
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1993
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The Microsoft Way: The Real Story Of How The Company Outsmarts Its Competition
12 editions
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1996
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A Practical Education: Why Liberal Arts Majors Make Great Employees
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BULLS IN THE CHINA SHOP
10 editions
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1991
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Technology and Society in Twentieth Century America: An Anthology
3 editions
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1989
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The Stubborn Earth: American Agriculturalists on Chinese Soil, 1898-1937
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1986
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“Graham excuses himself for a moment to go over to his laptop and look up what he had written in his notes after their interview. When he returns, he reports that he had written the following: “Insanely energetic founders. Fund for the new idea.” So Graham is not going to be the one who encourages them to pursue”
― The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator
― The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator
“As the other startups do at the end of their presentations, Shen offers to the batch the expertise of his team's members: "Kalvin and Randy are developers," he says, and as for himself, he knows how to stay motivated in the face of rejection. "I've gotten rejected thirty days in a row," he says, a reference to his putting himself through "Rejection Therapy," in which one must make unreasonable requests so that one is rejected by a different person, at least once, every single day- inuring one to the pain of rejection. (One example of Shen's first bid to be rejected: he asked a flight attendant if he could move up to first class for free. In another case, he saw an attractive woman on the train and decided he would ask her for her phone number, and when she would turn him down, he would have fulfilled the day's required quota of rejection. He sat near her, fell into a conversation, and when they got off the train and he asked for her number, she said, "Sure." He categorized this as "Failed Rejection.") "So if you need to get pumped up for your sales calls, talk to me. p121”
― The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups
― The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's Most Exclusive School for Startups
“HAVING ONE’S OWN shop, working on projects of one’s own choosing, making enough money today so one could do the same tomorrow: These were the modest goals of Thomas Edison when he struck out on his own as full-time inventor and manufacturer. The grand goal was nothing other than enjoying the autonomy of entrepreneur and forestalling a return to the servitude of employee.”
― The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
― The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented the Modern World
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